A note for beginners: It is definitely better to focus more on incline than decline as you’ll be working out your upper pectorals (chest) more than your lower pectorals. In this case, you’ll be pumping your pectorals from the top to the bottom. By doing more decline than incline, you’ll end up with pointy teats which smacks right in the middle of your chest. LOL! It’s true but I’d learned my lesson early enough!

Jamies, Ever heard of the pectoral major and pectoral minor? As craig said you can isolate either depending on exercise, flat bench is for major, incline for minor, therefore in theory making a decline pointless.

Actually, there are three pectoral muscles – the two major being pectoralis major clavicular (worked with incline presses) and pectoralis major sternal (worked with flat presses). The pectoralis minor is a relatively small muscle that lies beneath both the pectoralis major muscles.